Ocean Circulation And Climate: Observing And Modelling The Global Ocean

Other | March 1, 2001

The book represents all the knowledge we currently have on ocean circulation.It presents an up-to-date summary of the state of the science relating to the role of the oceans in the physical climate system.

The book is structured to guide the reader through the wide range of World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) science in a consistent way. Cross-references between contributors have been added, and the book has a comprehensive index and unified reference list.

The book is simple to read, at the undergraduate level. It was written by the best scientists in the world who have collaborated to carry out years of experiments to better understand ocean circulation.

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The book represents all the knowledge we currently have on ocean circulation.It presents an up-to-date summary of the state of the science relating to the role of the oceans in the physical climate system.The book is structured to guide the reader through the wide range of World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) science in a consiste...

John Church is a CSIRO Fellow with the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research. His area of expertise is the role of the ocean in climate, particularly anthropogenic climate change and sea-level rise. He has been a Principal Investigator on NASA/CNES satellite altimeter Science Working Teams since 1987. He was co-convening l...

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Table of Contents

The Ocean and Climate:Climate and OceansOcean Processes and Climate PhenomenaThe Origins, Development, and Conduct of WOCE

Observations and Models:Global Problems and Global ObservationsHigh-Resolution Modeling of the Thermohaline and Wind-Driven CirculationCoupled Ocean-Atmosphere Models

New Ways of Observing the Ocean:Shipboard Observations during WOCESubsurface Lagrangian Observations During the 1990sOcean Circulation and Variability from Satellite AltimetryAir-Sea Fluxes from Satellite DataDeveloping the WOCE Global Data System

Formation and Transport of Water Masses:Ocean Surface Water Mass TransformationMixing and Stirring in the Ocean InteriorSubductionMode WatersDeep ConvectionThe Dense Northern OverflowsMediterranean Water and Global CirculationTransformation and Age of Water Masses